Uma Thurman

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.